George Marshall-Hall

Who was George Marshall-Hall?

George William Louis Marshall-Hall was an English-born musician, composer, conductor, poet and controversialist who lived and worked in Australia from 1891 till his death in 1915. According to his birth certificate, his surname was 'Hall' and 'Marshall' was his fourth given name, which commemorated his physiologist grandfather, Marshall Hall. George's father, a barrister – who, however, never practiced that profession – appears to have been the first to hyphenate the name and his sons followed suit.